Storming

The reality of the world is that there are things that need to be done every day. Some are real mountains to climb, others are created by our own imagination, the ones that we put there and that have no substance. As people, however, we give them ‘reality’ status and so the struggle begins!

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Energy is that with which we wake up every morning, it is ours to use constructively or to waste. Actual mountains need determination. Ray Crok of McDonald’s fame had a plaque behind his desk, and the last line states, “persistence and determination are omnipotent” – all powerful! Determination to climb imaginary mountains is wasteful and silly somehow.

“Some men (and women) storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.” Edgar Watson Howe

Sadly the imaginary mountains have dangerous falsely created foothills that lead nowhere. The people who meander there do die imaginary deaths, and waste their energy blaming things that do not exist. Unfortunately these people have fashioned a world where they are doomed to fail and ultimately see themselves as failures and victims of fate. Keep the words of Theodore N. Vail in mind as he says, “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”

Real challenges are different, they require real plans and resolute focused action. These actions need to be grounded in fact, not fantasy. They need to be thought through without the influence of other people who may want to drag you through their imaginary foothills. Negative people love companions who will die with them in their failures. We are bigger than that, we are smarter than that and we have been given magnificent minds to make right choices.

So I guess we need to tackle real mountains and let leave the imaginary ones to people who are determined to sabotage themselves.